8. Resources and Links
8. Resources and Links
This module offers an overview of international, sport-specific, safeguarding, and trauma-informed resources relevant to professionals using sport to support the recovery and reintegration of victims of trafficking. It is designed to help coaches and practitioners identify reliable guidance, practical tools, and global frameworks that can inform ethical decision-making, safe practice, and survivor-centered approaches. By bringing these resources together in one place, the module supports and complements the other modules of the e-guide, helping align local sport-based initiatives with established international standards and best practices.
Trafficking-Related Resources
These resources provide global guidelines and best practices for victim protection, anti-trafficking efforts, and support mechanisms at the international level. They help coaches and practitioners align local initiatives with global anti-trafficking frameworks and connect to international support services.
- International Organisation for Migration — Counter-Trafficking Resources
Provides essential materials on trafficking indicators, victim protection, and international referral systems. - Survivor Alliance – Survivor Engagement Resources
Guidelines for engaging survivors in anti-trafficking work in a respectful and empowering way. - UNICEF – End Trafficking Toolkit
Ideas for using sports to educate communities about trafficking and engage youth in awareness campaigns.
Sport-Specific Resources
Resources focused on using sport as a tool for empowerment, protection, and integration of vulnerable groups, including trafficking victims.
- International Olympic Committee — Sport for Protection Toolkit
A comprehensive guide on using sport to support vulnerable groups, including refugees and trauma survivors. - European Union — EU Physical Activity Guidelines (2018 Update)
Policy framework emphasizing inclusion, health promotion, and access to sport for vulnerable groups. - Sport & Dev — Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
Provides frameworks, templates, and tools to evaluate and monitor sport-for-development programs to self-assess the effectiveness of their programs, ensuring that they meet both sports and social inclusion goals, such as empowerment, community integration, and protection for vulnerable groups. - Save the Children — Overcoming Psychosocial Stress Through Sports
A practical presentation outlining how sport can support personal development, empowerment, social inclusion, and peacebuilding. Useful for professionals seeking to understand the broader psychosocial value of sport beyond physical activity.
Coaching and Safe Practice Resources
These resources provide practical tools and guidelines for coaches to maintain a safe, ethical, and inclusive environment in sports, ensuring participants’ well-being and protection.
UK Coaching — Safe Practice Resources – Downloads, Checklists, and Templates
Tools like checklists and templates to help coaches implement safe practice principles.
Council of Europe — Safeguarding in Sport (Child Protection in Sport Unit)
Guidelines to create and maintain safe sport environments, focusing on protection from harm.
Trauma-Informed Resources
Resources designed to help coaches and practitioners understand and respond to trauma and trauma-related behaviors.
WHO — Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers
Provides clear guidance on how to respond calmly and appropriately to emotional needs, not general coaching safety guidance or sport-specific practice, but trauma-sensitive skills that are crucial when working with vulnerable individuals, including trafficking survivors.
Meaningful Engagement Toolkit – Centre for Sport & Human Rights
A toolkit that provides guidance on how to conduct meaningful, rights-based engagement in sport, with a focus on trauma-sensitive practices, inclusion, and safeguarding.
GBV Pocket Guide — Survivor Support Principles
A compact, survivor-centered resource outlining practical, harm-minimizing guidance (Look, Listen, Link) for interacting with individuals who disclose gender-based violence. Useful for coaches and practitioners to ensure supportive, non-judgmental responses and effective referral communication.
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